Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

There is no working middle course in wartime.

It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance.

Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.